Visitors walk right up to these “harmonic artworks” and literally try to crawl into them. Some stand inside the netlike sculptures, while others walk between them and the white gallery wall. The iPhone’s flashlight app creates intricate three dimensional shadows in the color of what the artist calls “vibrational instruments.” People of all backgrounds and ages are drawn to these sea creature or plant like sculptures. The artist explains that this engagement with the work allows its energetic properties to affect people. This interaction accounts for a mildly disorienting sensation felt by sensitive viewers.

Jadene Mayla hails from the Bay Area but moved to Oregon in 1983. Her artwork focuses on the application of the science of BioGeometry, a discipline resuscitated from Ancient Egypt by architect and engineer Dr. Ibrahim Karim. She knits her beautiful pieces from hemp or linen yarn, then stretches and stiffens them in forms she thinks her audience will recognize. Seaweed and plant seed pods most closely resemble the microscopic sacred geometry she employs to make them, she explains. She did a Google search on a hunch and discovered her knitting pattern looks identical to magnified plant cells. She chooses complimentary colors that mimic the pulse of living things. The curving lines of each piece create a striking combination of line, shape, and negative space, and the sculptures hang and rotate on currents of air, offering what seems like an endless number of perspectives.

Jadene Mayla is a multimedia artist with an MFA in Applied Craft + Design from both Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BLA in Landscape Architecture. She has exhibited at Horsehead Gallery, Launchpad Gallery, Bison Gallery, Cascade Gallery, Seven Virtues, Stylus Grooves, Furthermore Gallery, The Mansion, Division Street, Synesthesia Festival, and the Burning Man arts festival, and is currently showing work at the Port of Portland.

Her awards include first place in the H.O.P.E.S. national design competition, 2005, Eco-Biz status since 2011, a $12,000 scholarship from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a $24,000 scholarship from Oregon State University.

Other achievements include published work in Alternatives Magazine, Nothing Sacred Journal, Center Street Journal, and the Portland Mercury; the position of Vice President with the American Center for Sustainability; invitations to speak at Clackamas Community College and Ujima Center; inclusion on the schedule of workshops for the Northwest Regional Permaculture Gathering, Village Building Convergence, and SE Portland Permaculture Convergence; selection for the Glass Goddess Project core team, National Honor Society, and art review team for Untitled Magazine; and co-founder of the Eugene City Repair Project.

Statement

BioGeometry is a sacred science that allows me to verify and design for the emanation of a specific trio of subtle frequencies shown empirically to protect biological systems against electromagnetic fields. Through its application, I also capture the attention of elemental forces the ancient Egyptians called NeTeRs. It is my intention to co-create an object-scale architecture of human awakening through my engagement with these natural Devic intelligences.

In my sculptures, you see my Casting of the Net. I allow the pattern of the nets to precisely resemble the cellular structure of plants while molding the knit pieces into forms that evoke living organisms and the pulse of vital energy. These works have been successful in drawing the engagement of a diverse audience, which meets my goal of bringing people into their resonant field.

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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Innovation and Creative Problem-Solving

Systems Design and Development

Project Management

Client Communications

Drafting and Illustration

Presentation, Education, and Demonstration

Strategic Change Management

Cultivation of Partnerships and Alliances

Process Improvement

Resource Utilization and Management

EXPERIENCE

Harmonic Artworks LLC ~ Portland, OR. 2014-present.

Lead Designer

Developed business systems in marketing and production

Implemented effective client management strategy

Created and delivered unique solutions to electromagnetic pollution

Organized all components of creative studio

Secured mentoring from local luminaries resulting in efficient progress

Streamlined resource use

Eco-Logic Permaculture & Landscape Design ~ Portland, OR. 2004-2012.

Designer & Project Manager

Earned first place award in national design competition for ecological suburban redesign